Embedded Design with PetaLinux Tools

• Building the environment and booting the system using a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC with PetaLinux Tools on the ARM® Cortex™-A53 processor
• Using open-source embedded Linux components
• Configuring the Linux environment and network components
• Debugging embedded Linux platforms

Who Should Attend?

Prerequisites

• Essentials of FPGA Design course (introductory FPGA design course)
• Embedded Systems Software Development course (software development for FPGA embedded systems course)

Skills gained

• Explain what an embedded Linux kernel is
• Describe the Linux device driver architecture
• Create a PetaLinux project to configure and build an image using PetaLinux tools
• Create a working ARM Cortex-A9 or Cortex-A53 Processor Linux system using the Vivado Design Suite and PetaLinux tools
• List various hardware interfacing options available for the ARM Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A53 Processor
• Build custom hardware cores and device drivers using the user space I/O (UIO) framework

Course Outline

• Introduction to Embedded Linux - Introduces embedded Linux, including a brief architectural overview, as well as some of the reasons for its rising popularity as an embedded OS. {Lecture}
• Embedded Linux Components - Describes the various components required for embedded Linux platforms and how the components affect the booting of Linux on these platforms. {Lecture, Lab}
• Introduction to the PetaLinux Tools - Describes the PetaLinux tools and their requirements. {Lecture}
• PetaLinux Tools Workflow - Provides a brief description of the PetaLinux tools workflow. {Lecture}
• Basics of the PetaLinux Tools - Describes in detail various PetaLinux commands and their example use cases. {Lecture, Lab}
• Application Development and Debugging - Introduces core concepts for developing, running, and debugging software applications in an embedded Linux environment. {Lecture, Lab}
• Customizing rootfs - Provides a brief description on customizing the rootfs for embedded Linux. {Lecture}
• Networking and TCP/IP - Discusses how the TCP/IP networking stack can be used to improve productivity during embedded product development. {Lecture, Lab}
• Linux Device Drivers Overview - Provides a brief overview on Linux device drivers and how to use them for custom hardware. {Lecture}
• User Space I/O and Loadable Kernel Modules - Introduces two lightweight approaches for accessing the physical memory of devices from user space: direct access through the dev/mem virtual device and the user space I/O framework. {Lecture, Lab}
• Board Bring Up with the Vivado Design Suite and PetaLinux Tools - Describes the complete board bring-up process, which includes the hardware design as well as Linux image creation for the hardware {Lecture, Lab}
• PetaLinux Image Booting Methods - Describes how to boot the PetaLinux image via QEMU, SD card, JTAG, and TFTP. {Lecture}
• Configuring the rootfs Type - Reviews various rootfs types (INITRD, INITRAMFS, NFS, JFFS2, and SD card) and how to configure a PetaLinux project to boot the PetaLinux image with the selected rootfs. {Lecture}
• Custom Hardware Development - Describes the Package IP Wizard and how it can be used to create a variety of architectural o ptions for interfacing a system with custom processing hardware. {Lecture, Lab}
• Custom Driver Development - Discusses device driver options to match custom hardware devices and how to use the provided interfaces to read and write to the devices. {Lecture, Lab}

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